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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






2. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






3. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






4. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






5. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






6. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






7. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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8. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






9. Individual Educational Plan






10. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






11. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






12. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






13. Ability to understand and express spoken language






14. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






15. Closed syllable






16. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






17. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






18. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






19. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






20. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






21. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






22. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






23. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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24. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






25. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






26. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






27. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






28. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






29. Multisensory Structured Language






30. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






31. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






32. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






33. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






34. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






35. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






36. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






37. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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38. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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39. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






40. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






41. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






42. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






43. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






44. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






45. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






46. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






47. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






48. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






49. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






50. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the







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